About Santiago F. Top Coder Competition Ranking # 180 of 50,503   Raw Score Total: 16,699.98 Name:  Santiago F. (see 19 ratings)   in Quilmes, Buenos Aires Argentina Seller / Coder Rating:  10 (Excellent) Sign up date:  Mar 15, 2003 12:07:09 AM EDT Last Logged In:  Aug 20, 2003 9:59:21 PM EDT Jobs Started:  28 Jobs Completed:  26 Missed Status Report Warnings Issued:  0 Arbitrations Lost:  1 (out of 2 Arbitrations) What is arbitration?       Post a new project exclusively for Santiago F.   Invite Santiago F. to bid on one of my existing projects    Send Santiago F. a bonus   Add Santiago F. to my custom list of favorite coders     Areas Of Expertise:  In general lines my areas of expertize are: -Databases -Graphics -Multimedia -Serial & Paralel coms -Digital & Analog Electronics -Algorith in general, specialy mathematicals -Files in general -Windows enviroment (capture of events, and general Windows control) Sincerely, Santiago Favaro   Resume: My name is Santiago Favaro and am 18 years old. I from Argentina. I studied english for three years but then i have to leave due the school. Now i'm finishim the school with a title of Avionics Technical. Five years ago i begun learning Visual Basic to nowadays. I started with VB 5 and later i change to VB 6.0. In this five years i maked a lot of own projects: -CD Player -Midi & Wav Player -Calculator -Graphic Calculator -Windows enviroment Zoom -A Keylogger -A picture viewer -A Wordpad imitation -A better Paint imitation program with many image FX -A CD Tape maker -A photoscreen taker -A Network Tic-tac-toe with multiplayers -A File splitter -A program for a teacher to upload students files to the LAN network -A complete Diary using databases (with reminder) -A module to load PCB files (Protel 98 - Genre: Electronics) for a school big project -A 2D game for childrens like a RPG -A Arkanoid game imitation -A fighting game (Using DirectX) -A control program for the LPT port (parallel port) -A algorithm to compress images using the idea of Mike (in Planet-Source-Code.com). The idea is to find the repeat blocks of an image and replace its to only one. And i could mean the projects that have an own Hardware (Too using VB): -A Oscilloscope with serial port (not complete because i don't have enough technology) -A shooting game: I create the "real" gun hardware using the game port and a game to shoot using VB + DirectX (a Nintendo duck's game) -A Telephone Control: It indicates all calls, with the number called, duration & cost. It uses a PIC microcontroller, the serial port and in VB, Databases. -A big project for the school: I and three friend maked a plotter (Controlled by VB) to make electronic PCB (Printed Circuit Board). We do it in about six month and we desing all the electronics, all Visual Basic Program and all the mecanical struct. We use stepper motors, LCD, a AC Motor, optional serial or parralel com and a big algorithm for VB to import the PCB files from Protel 98 and send it to the Hardware. Since i'm in the school (year 2000) i studied Borland C++; I learn a lot of techniques like: -Files -Stacks -Structs -Pointers -Recursion -Buble Sort -Graphical User Interface -Litle of 3D -and more Also you can view an example of the kind of how i work at: http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=44040&lngWId=1 This link is a Visual Guide (or tutorial) that show how to use Databases in Visual Basic. It should show my kind of work. Note that there is a photoscreen (with a litle FX) every page, there is Steps (this means organization) and the text format is designed that it can be read clearly and don't make a boring file. The example in VB as you can see in the photoscreen in this site is separated in three steps to be clearly. Conclusion: This is my kind of work, clearly, organizated and prolix.   Top Coder Competition Raw Score   Average Job Size Average Coder Rating Number of Completed Jobs Penalty for Missed Status Reports Warnings * $64.23 x 10 x 26 - (0 warnings x 1000 penalty) = 0   Raw Score Total: 16,700 * Penalty rule enacted on 10/8/2001 and applies only to warnings sent after that date. Note: all top coder competition stats are only updated once a day between midnight and 1:00 EDT.     Rent A Coder Work History All ratings and comments are the opinion of the poster and do not reflect the official view of Rent A Coder. Rated For Rated By Rating Bid Amount Rated On   Bonus for Santiago F. on 8/15/2003 6:57:47 PM yoshi027 None Given $25.00 August 19, 2003 2:45:50 PM EDT       VB6.0 text convert to color map yoshi027 10 (Excellent) $30.00 August 15, 2003 7:15:35 PM EDT   Absolutely professional and a pleasure to work with. Very competent, Highly Recommended!!! A+++     Private auction for Santiago F. on 7/3/2003 11:17:58 AM coderod None Given $115.00 July 29, 2003 11:26:26 PM EDT       EZ Landscape Designer MPS 10 (Excellent) $130.00 July 20, 2003 4:29:37 PM EDT   Santiago is a very talented programmer and did a fantastic job on a complex project.     Bonus for Santiago F. on 7/16/2003 12:54:16 AM coderod None Given $20.00 July 16, 2003 12:55:00 AM EDT       Private auction for Santiago F. on 5/24/2003 12:09:42 AM JonCrowell 10 (Excellent) $600.00 July 11, 2003 9:53:48 AM EDT   The project has exceeded my expectations!! Excellent job. The code is very clean and well organized and the implementation of features is very clever. I have offered Santiago two more enhancement projects to this program. Santiago and another programmer Leandro worked well as a team on this project. Thanks, Jon     Bonus for Santiago F. on 7/4/2003 10:31:48 PM coderod None Given $20.00 July 4, 2003 10:32:42 PM EDT       image script to add name to JPG's coderod 10 (Excellent) $100.00 July 2, 2003 1:58:42 AM EDT   awesome response time and coder tweaked program to every degree that I wanted. will do work with again!     Bonus for Santiago F. on 6/30/2003 1:58:14 PM Tometa Software, Inc. None Given $50.00 June 30, 2003 1:58:43 PM EDT       Combine and Bug Fixes Tometa Software, Inc. 10 (Excellent) $65.00 June 30, 2003 1:58:08 PM EDT   WOW!!! Amazing, incredible work!!!     Device Control apashack 10 (Excellent) $80.00 June 25, 2003 9:11:06 AM EDT   Good work and prompt communications. Made several changes as needed in a very timely manner. Completed the entire project in less time than expected. I would use Santiago again without hesitation.     More work per last project Tometa Software, Inc. 10 (Excellent) $50.00 June 10, 2003 3:12:40 AM EDT   Wow, I'm amazed at the quality of work by Santiago. He is a coding machine! Way above the call of duty!!     Finish App Skeleton Tometa Software, Inc. 10 (Excellent) $45.00 May 30, 2003 3:29:12 AM EDT   If you get the chance to work with Santiago, do so, he is a great coder!     Internet connection VB6 mwade 10 (Excellent) $10.00 May 24, 2003 5:34:05 PM EDT   Excellent Work!     ActiveX Object Tometa Software, Inc. 10 (Excellent) $45.00 May 20, 2003 11:07:58 PM EDT   Santiago does incredible work and does it very quickly!!! We will be working with him for a long time to come.     RF Temperature Monitoring Receiver Module Benny Boy 10 (Excellent) $30.00 May 16, 2003 7:50:10 AM EDT   Santiago is a competent and highly professional rent-a-coder. All queries and questions were answered promptly and he was a joy to work with. Fabulous.     help for VB6 aminew 10 (Excellent) $10.00 May 11, 2003 3:05:08 AM EDT   great job!!!     Private auction for Santiago F. on 5/3/2003 12:39:11 AM GamblingGeek 10 (Excellent) $40.00 May 7, 2003 5:15:33 PM EDT   Excellent final product. Excellent communications. Top-notch experience. Thanks much.     Bonus for Santiago F. on 5/5/2003 3:23:46 AM GamblingGeek None Given $20.00 May 5, 2003 3:28:07 AM EDT       Add-on to last project inet29 10 (Excellent) $50.00 May 2, 2003 5:46:34 PM EDT   Santiago has done a wonderful job. He is very focus and provided me with ideas and solutions to my problems. He had a permanent open channel communication. I do recommend him for your next job!     Determine IP class. Ian Ippolito (RAC) None Given $5.00 April 19, 2003 11:31:00 AM EDT   The job was reposted and the buyer has accepted the coder again.     Determine IP class a0lsux None Given $5.00 April 14, 2003 6:36:05 PM EDT       Simple VB Tometa Software, Inc. 10 (Excellent) $15.00 April 13, 2003 7:42:02 PM EDT   Great and fast work !!!     Extension to VB project inet29 10 (Excellent) $30.00 April 11, 2003 7:47:13 PM EDT   It is a pleasure to work with Santiago. I really don't understand why he got a 1 rating. I have opened more than 50 bids here at RAC and I can absolutely assure you that he does a GREAT JOB! I do recommend him. ABSOLUTELY!     Radio Frequency Temperature Monitoring System Benny Boy 10 (Excellent) $50.00 April 10, 2003 11:08:56 AM EDT   Santiago was an excellent coder. He was efficient, informative and very competent. A Superb rent a coder!!!!!     Network Crawler inet29 10 (Excellent) $20.00 April 2, 2003 8:54:49 PM EDT   EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT!!! Santiago has done a great job. I am usually hesitant to award bids to programmers without a history but Santiago has been incredible. Very proactive and extremely fast. I am very happy with his job. I absolutely recommend him.     House jujuann 10 (Excellent) $15.00 March 29, 2003 8:07:29 AM EDT       ------ Average:   10.00